Global Estimates 2012: People displaced by disasters

  Available online: http://www.internal-displacement.org/publications/global-estimates-2012-people-d [...]

Over five years from 2008 to 2012, around 144 million people were forced from their homes in 125 countries. In 2012, an estimated 32.4 million people in 82 countries were newly displaced by disasters associated with natural hazards triggered by climate- and weather-related events (98 per cent of all displacement in 2012; 83 per cent over five years), with flood disasters in India and Nigeria accounting for 41 per cent of global displacement in 2012. In India, monsoon floods displaced 6.9 million and in Nigeria 6.1 million people were newly displaced. The Global Estimates report determines that while over the past five years 81 per cent of global displacement has occurred in Asia, in 2012 Africa had a record high for the region of 8.2 million people newly displaced, over four times more than in any of the previous four years. The report concludes that the systematic collection, analysis and sharing of data is critical to inform policy and measures where they are most needed.

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